Release Notes – OS 3.11
OS 3.11 improves Shop ordering with live stock, pricing, card or credit checkout, and post-order tracking. This release also includes new mounting and incentive support, project-document QR codes, larger SLD configurations, and Bridge Select STC claims from sold projects.
See live stock and best prices before you order
🇦🇺🇬🇧 Shop
- For participating suppliers, you can now see the supplier’s best price, live stock availability, and best delivery price in the ordering flow. You can also check out instantly with card or credit, without arranging payment outside OpenSolar.
Track Shop orders after checkout
🇦🇺🇬🇧 Shop
- For participating suppliers, you can now see order status, delivery status, and order history after checkout, making it easier to review your order and follow updates from your supplier.
Start STC claims from sold projects with Bridge Select
🇦🇺 Incentives
- Connect Bridge Select and create STC claim jobs from sold projects without re-entering available project details. Keep your existing Bridge Select trader, review the details before submission, and check the job status in OpenSolar.
Design Studio
🇬🇧 Build Van Der Valk pitched-roof mounting BOMs – Use the new mounting integration to calculate a BOM from your roof design. Draw the roof with Quick Roof Tools, place your panels, then choose from suitable mounting systems and configure the available options before reviewing the parts list for ordering through Shop.
🇦🇺 Estimate NSW PDRS incentives for BESS3, BESS4 and BESS5 – For NSW battery projects, you can now see the estimated Peak Reduction Certificates (PRCs) and incentive value under the Peak Demand Reduction Scheme (PDRS) based on project details. Where applicable, the PDRS incentive can appear alongside federal battery STCs.
Project Management CRM
Generate QR codes for project documents – Create a printable QR code for a project document and place it on the installed system. This gives your customer ongoing access to key project documents.
Fixes
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Updated the Instructions text box in Supplier Assist – The text box now makes better use of the available space and supports manual resizing. Review and edit lengthy instructions, detailed notes, and delivery or order requirements with less scrolling.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Updated the Save & Email Account Manager modal in Supplier Assist – Corrected the spacing around the Notes and Optional fields and increased the header size to align with the rest of the interface when saving and emailing quote changes.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Fixed Delivery and Collection details in Supplier Assist order confirmations – The Confirm Order for Customer modal and Pro- and supplier-facing confirmation emails now use the correct Delivery or Collection terminology and show the relevant date, branch or address, instructions, contact information, and payment option.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Fixed discount and delivery costs after Supplier Assist quote updates – Previously entered discount and delivery amounts now remain visible when you update an approved Supplier Assist quote, instead of changing to TBD.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Added missing order details to Supplier Assist confirmation emails – The Pro-facing order confirmation email now includes the Delivery Option, Contact Information, and Payment Option, matching the key order details already shown in the supplier-facing email.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Added Tags and Install Date filters to Multi-Project Ordering – In Shop > Multi-Project Ordering, you can now see project Tags in the table and filter by Tags and Install Date. Narrow the list to the projects you need before adding them to a bulk order.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Added the option to remove individual projects from Multi-Project Ordering – In Group by Project, you can now remove one project BOM without clearing the rest of the cart. Items for that project are removed, while other projects stay in place and cart totals update automatically.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Fixed BOM quantity flicker after syncing from Design – In Project > Shop, quantities set to 0 no longer briefly flash to 1 when you select Sync from Design.
- 🇦🇺🇩🇪🇪🇸🇺🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹 Added support for larger SLD configurations – Generated string-inverter SLDs now support up to 2 inverters, 3 MPPTs per inverter, and 4 strings per MPPT. MPPT numbering restarts for each inverter, and string labels follow the selected template language. Configurations above these limits still generate an SLD with a warning.
- Fixed missing Featured Figures in retrofit Proposals – Featured Figures now show correctly when you open a retrofit Proposal.
- 🇬🇧 Improved tile roof classification for roof hook selection – When you select Tile Clay or Tile Concrete with Clenergy, Fastensol, or Renusol VS+, you’ll now choose Plain/Flat tile or Pantile before OpenSolar calculates the BOM. The roof hook dropdown then shows options compatible with that tile type.
- Improved battery label selection for designs – When your design includes a battery, OpenSolar now adds the matching battery label from your preferred supplier. If that supplier uses manual pricing, the label comes from your second preferred supplier.
- Added 3D Plus activation in Design – When 3D Plus appears under More Available in the imagery tab, you can now review the terms and enable the integration without leaving Design.
- 🇦🇺 Removed card surcharging from CashFlow in Australia – From 1 October 2026, card surcharge settings will no longer be available in CashFlow, following changes announced by the Reserve Bank of Australia. Customers will no longer be charged a card surcharge at checkout. You can still accept card payments, and no action is required.
- 🇺🇲🇦🇺🇬🇧 Removed the final manual step when switching to Stripe – Once your organization is approved by Stripe, OpenSolar now switches CashFlow to Stripe automatically, including existing unpaid payment requests.
- 🇮🇳 Added lakh/crore number formatting to Checkout – When a project’s address is set to India, monetary values in Checkout now follow Indian-style comma grouping across quotation, payment, and e-signature amounts.
- 🇺🇲 Improved permitting request forms – More project data now prefills in permitting request forms, with better handling for required fields.
- 🇮🇳🇱🇰🇵🇰🇧🇩🇳🇵 Added lakh/crore number formatting to proposals – When a project’s address is set to one of these countries, monetary values on customer-facing proposals and exported PDFs follow Indian-style comma grouping.
Try out the new features and let us know what you think!